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“What happens when you even just think about something you don't want to do or don't like, It activates a portion of the brain in the insular cortex that experiences pain, so it's kind of like that same feeling you get in the pit of your stomach when you don't …”

“In, in 2014, Harvard released this study in which they discovered that talking about yourself activates the same pleasure center in the brain as sex and heroin.”

“The fact of the matter is, is that when we experience in any kind of pain or travail, your brain immediately Gets to work on softening that memory. Literally right after it happened. And that's a really good reason, because if we actually remembered pain to it…”

“They've done fMRI scans in which they discovered that when you start to feel defensive, that, that word is quite literally descriptive. In other words, you start to feel challenged. You start to feel defensive and your brain begins actually instigating the sam…”

“The way they form good habits, what we call good habits and bad habits, they all form in the same way. Our brain The way that brain gets rewired, it's not like here are the good habits and bad habits. It's just think behaviors become automatic, and then it's o…”

“When it comes to emotion, as with almost everything in, in biology variation is the norm. There isn't one anger. You have a whole population of angers that you can feel, and your brain doesn't conjure them randomly. It conjures them according to your brain's b…”

“You don't have an emotional brain. You don't have a rational brain. There's no part of your brain that's devoted to emotion that isn't used when also in moments when you are being rational.”

“It doesn't matter whether you're thinking or feeling or seeing or hearing or whatever. It's all the same mechanisms. Your brain is taking in sense data from the body and from the world, and it's using past experiences to make sense of what that means.”

“Why did a brain evolve? It didn't evolve for you to think or feel or see. It evolved to regulate your body.”

“The brain, your brain is automatically making inferences about the internal thoughts and feelings of people based on their actions, but we are blinded To the fact that they're inferences, that they're guesses. We think we're reading people when, in fact, reall…”

“Cause I mean, I can tell you the one big breakthrough that we now know is that concussions make you incredibly depressed cause your brain is trying to stop you from getting injured again. And so it kind of shuts down all the pathways that Tell your brain it's …”

“I think this is this crazy view we have of the brain is that like, we know that we belch and fart, and we don't attribute deep meaning to belches or farts. But the same belches and farts produced by the firing of our neurons are like, oh, I thought about that.…”

“The jerkiness of our Zoom calls and the, you know, which just kind of doesn't help us, our brains be able to synchronize with each other, which They need to do in order to feel empathetic and connected.”

“I would say it's very dangerous to stay in bed awake for long periods of time. And it's especially dangerous to do that and force yourself to try and sleep and become frustrated with not being able to sleep. And the reason is the following. We are very Pavlovi…”

“One way to enhance it is to have the feet slightly elevated, 10 to 15 degrees. I put a pillow under my ankles when I sleep at night. Usually in the middle of the night, I realize I kicked it away or something like that, but feet elevated naps of about 10 to 15…”

“So to, in order to understand that, it's essential to appreciate that pleasure and pain are co-located in the brain. So the same parts of the brain that process pleasure also process pain, and they work like opposite sides of a balance.”

“If you miss a night's sleep, or one night you just can't get to bed at the regular time, and the next more, the next night you will probably be sleepier earlier, and if you can go to sleep a little bit earlier, you will Catch up on that deep slow way of sleep …”

“The completion of the metabolism of alcohol sends an arousing and alerting Message to your brain. So a lot of people, if they, they're drunk and they fall asleep, they will wake up at, you know, three, four in the morning and find it difficult to go back to sl…”

“We've recently discovered in the last five, six years that sleep isn't necessarily a whole brain at the same time phenomenon. That in fact, some of our brain can be asleep while other parts of our brain can be awake.”

“It's only been in the past 10 years or so We realized that there are actual, the slow waves that we didn't know what their function was when we fall asleep. Are actually sweeping through and cleaning our brains from the debris that builds up across wakefulness…”

“The way it works in the brain is, is it narrows your desires and wants to this one thing. That's what happens over time.”

“So there's research on the brain that shows when our brain gets an incomplete picture of something, we fill in the gaps in a way that makes it more positive.”

“The brain has built-in mechanisms to shut us down so that we don't do self-harm, right? And so those are the same mechanisms that, at a drive level for human beings, you know, govern our conduct. So, so underperformance is built into the human condition. So th…”